Test 11 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the…

Real talk, what did the King think Martin had done?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: King, Martin · What happens: think, do · To what, where: Real talk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1719 «Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Widow's Son, part 43: the King jails Martin, and his animal friends steal rolls to save him» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 think	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 think	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 think	nsubj
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	acl
9	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 done	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 think	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the King	Real talk					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
2	do	past · perfect	Martin						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Lying about the golden ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	5 ring	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ring	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ring	amod
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund						about the golden ring	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about ring=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Witchcraft and deceiving him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 deceiving	cc
3	deceiving	deceive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Witchcraft	conj
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 deceiving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deceive	gerund		him = he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

Stealing gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund		gold					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme

Option 4

Theft of rolls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 rolls	case
3	rolls	roll	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Theft	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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